News for February 2017- Improved detection of partitions on corrupted drives. Even if the partition table on your disk is corrupted or overwritten, DiskDigger will attempt to search for recoverable partitions independently of the partition table, and let you recover files from these lost partitions.- When recovering files in "Dig Deep" mode, you can now filter recoverable files by general file types, such as "Pictures", "Documents", "Presentations", etc. This will automatically show you only files of the selected type, and make it easier to find the file(s) you're looking for. As before, you may also still apply a custom filter on the recoverable files, where you can search the files by name, size, and folder location.- In "Dig Deep" mode, improved detection of whether or not a file is recoverable. DiskDigger provides hints of whether a file is recoverable by showing a red or green dot icon next to the file. This functionality has been expanded and improved in this update, to give you more confidence of the recoverability of each file.- Fixed possible issues when recovering files larger than 2 GB. On certain filesystems, recovering a very large file may have resulted in an empty file. This has been fixed.

News for January 2018Here is what's new in the latest version of DiskDigger for Windows:- Revamped and improved support for scanning disk images. Ideal for professional forensic analysis, as well as personal recovery of disk images, all of these types of disk images are supported:- E01 and EWF images (Expert Witness Format) saved by EnCase and various other tools. If the image is broken into multiple segments (E01, E02, etc.), just open the E01 segment and DiskDigger will detect the other segments automatically.- VMDK images, used by VmWare.- VDI images, used by VirtualBox.- VHD images, used by Microsoft VirtualPC.- Plain 'dd' raw images.- Open any of the above disk image types by launching DiskDigger and clicking the Advanced tab, where you should see the option to scan a disk image. Once you select the image file, the type of the image will be detected automatically.- E01 files themselves can now be recovered in "dig deeper" mode.- Support for recovering FLIF (Free Lossless Image Format) images.- Improved support for recovering .TAR.GZ archives.

The Android version of the DiskDigger app now has the following updates:- Improved support and compatibility with Android Oreo.- Fixed some potential issues when saving recoverable files to an external SD card. Previously it was possible to see "access denied" errors when saving files to an SD card, which was due to incorrect usage of Android's SAF (Storage Access Framework).- Improved ability to permanently delete individual files from Basic Scan results. It's currently not possible to delete files from a Full (rooted) scan, but this is planned for a future update.

News for June 2018Time for another excellent update to DiskDigger for Windows, as well as the DiskDigger app for Android. Here's what's new in this release of the Windows version:* Support for more variants of E01 (forensic disk image) files.* Improved detection and recovery of Windows thumbcache files.* Improved handling of errors when scanning disks (due to bad sectors, I/O errors, etc).* Support for recovery of RSA certificates in "Dig Deeper" mode.* Fixed some possible performance issues when recovering JPG and ZIP files.* Improved detection and recovery of .GZ archives.* Improved preview of raw sector bytes, with arbitrary navigation to any sector.* Improved recovery of highly-fragmented files in NTFS when using "Dig deep" mode.* Improved detection of extended MBR partitions.

What's new in version 1.20:Like the "Clean up" feature, the "Wipe free space" feature is still a bit experimental, so you should be aware of some of its caveats and limitations:• Wiping of free space is done by creating a temporary file and filling it with random data, until it consumes the entire amount of free space on your device. When the temporary file begins to reach the limit of free space, the Android system will usually display a notification that your available space is running out. You should ignore this notification until the wipe process is complete. When it finishes, it will delete the temporary file and free up the remaining space again.• It is possible that the Android system will stop DiskDigger from being able to write to the temporary file before the memory is completely full. This means that there is a possibility that not all of the free space will be wiped, and some deleted data might still be recoverable. You can always re-run DiskDigger and scan your device's memory to ensure whether the wipe was successful.• The wiping is done only on the internal memory of the device. The ability to wipe an external SD card will be added in a future version.• It's important to note that because the wiping is done by overwriting all the free space, it means that the process inflicts a significant amount of wear on the device's memory. This can potentially shorten the life span of the memory, and should be performed sparingly, and only when necessary.